Straight, only slightly chilled with 4 adequate shot glasses on the side. Serve with typical Russian cult snacks:

First course: salo (Russian bacon) with sweet pepper, onions and roasted rye rolls

Second course: caviar on bliny (Russian pan cakes)

Third course: a bowl of either solyanka (meet soup) or bortsch (kraut soup)

Main course: baked sturgeon with potato along with salted cucumbers, tomato, wild mushrooms.

Desert: biscuits and bitter chocolate.

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